Car bomb strikes police convoy in Baghdad

A parked car struck a convoy of Iraqi police commandos and gunmen opened fire on police on a foot patrol in a mostly Shiite neighbourhood in Baghdad today, police said, a day after gunmen stormed a senior Iraqi police officer’s home north-east of the capital.

Diplomatic tensions also rose, with the Iraqi Foreign Ministry summoning the Turkish charge d’affaires and calling for an immediate halt to cross-border shelling into northern Iraq, saying such actions “undermine confidence between the two nations and negatively affect their friendship.”north-east